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Making the World Safe for Human Differences

Written by Dr. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad
February 8, 2017

One of the things I love about my job is the daily opportunity to interact with students. In sitting and listening to them I am constantly amazed about how they make sense of their world. Anthropologists call this method ethnography. And while it is somewhat out of vogue and deemed by many to be something that anyone can do, there is much to be learned from the art of really listening and observing.